Brimfield Police Department wins Facebook with smackdown on Kanye

The Brimfield Police Department is a real thing in Brimfield, Ohio. “So what?” you might say. “Most towns have cops.”

True. But every town doesn’t have a police chief like Brimfield’s Chief David Oliver.

Oliver has become well-known for using the department’s Facebook page to take criminals down a few notches with his razor-sharp wit and sarcastic humor. But the latest — a takedown of Kayne West– might be the best thing on the Internet right now. A quote from Oliver’s open letter to West, in which he tells Yeezus to “check yourself before your wreck yourself”:

I read your interview and also watched it on video. You said:
“I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally…and I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.”

I want to thank you for putting your life on the line for all of us every day. I know that being a rapper is tough work. I have tried to rap, and it is very difficult to keep up with the pulse of the rhyme flow…although when Ice Ice Baby comes on the radio, I can usually keep up with ol’ Vanilla. Anywho, your job is just some very dangerous work. Most people don’t consider… if you rap really fast, without a chance to inhale, you could pass out and hit your head.

Oh, SNAP.

One of the many department t-shirt designs. Yes, the department actually sells swag. (Screenshot by Laura Keeney)

There is something to be said here about organizations harnessing the power of social media, and that likely would involve a bar graph or two. Although it is true, this is not the post for that. But it is the post for this: Bottom line, if you’re not following Brimfield PD on Facebook, you’re Internetting wrong.